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One harvest has benefitted from the cold: Ice

By Staff, Associated Press

Updated:
01/09/2014 11:12:17 PM MST

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One harvest has benefitted from the cold: ice

The tradition of harvesting lake ice at a New Hampshire campground is off to a cold and early start.Crews started sawing blocks for the Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness on Thursday, something they've been doing for more than a century.Carl Hansen uses a custom designed circular saw to cut into more than a foot thick of ice in Squaw Cove on Squam Lake Thursday Jan. 9, 2014 in Sandwich, N.H. (Jim Cole/AP Photo)Last year, the three-day harvest didn't start until Feb. ...

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